oops, went a month without posting again...

which pretty much brings me to my conclusion that as soon as you graduate from college, it's decided by some higher power that your IM and blog are gonna dry up within a year. that's pretty much what happened, and i don't really know what to do about it. i remember in the middle of college i had a decent number of people on my buddy list, which meant checking away messages was a bit of a hobby. but as soon as everyone starts to graduate, they all move off to their own lives and understandably they can't be online all the time like they used to. at this point i only get online to talk to a *very* limited number of people, which makes it seem even more lame that i bother at all. i think i only ever even talk to alayna, lauren and rick actually. alayna and i will move in together within the next half-year here, so that'll be gone obviously. lauren's not really an email type person, and i'm not gonna call her every time i find some link or fact to send. most of the other people on my list are online every now and then, maybe a couple hours a week at most, which prolly just means they're catching up with old friends now and then. after last year i really got sick of asking people over and over to get together over email and IM, so i've pretty much cut that shit out. i'm not a big fan of chatting with people once a month and catching up over IM, i'd really just rather trade a few emails or something if you don't wanna bother to get together.

as far as the blog, i think i just keep it around for when i kinda want to vent or discuss something "out loud." i don't really know who my audience is anymore, given that i used to advertise it most prominently on my IM info, but if i hardly talk to anyone anymore, who's gonna see it? i'd love to have a network of friends who all provided RSS feeds that let you know when they update their blog (such as a once-every-couple-of-days type update), but i don't know many people that would bother with that.

it's... kinda depressing, sorta.

--justin